Steps
- Prepare the floor for flattening. This part of restoration is the most powerful and dynamic. It's lippage removal or flattening. It step consist of grinding and leveling floor. Even new installed marble tile floor can have some tiles be upper or lower of floor flatness. This step removes all ledges, roughness and brings flatness to marble floors. Also, this step can remove the most deepest scratches and stains.
- Hone the floor. Honing is the step of floor restoration provides smoothing the marble floor with industrial diamonds, which brings up more shine to the marble. Honing will also remove scratches, stains and give a more uniform appearance. In some cases honing is all that?s needed to get you stone looking spectacular again.
- Polish the floor. Polishing gives semi-shining or shining effect to the marble floor. Polishing is done by industrial diamonds, but smaller graded, than while honing. For marble floors in good condition a polishing can be enough to bring back the shine.
- Crystallize the floor. Crystallization is a method of marble floor finishing. It brings "mirror like" shine by chemical reaction on the surface of marble. Crystallization also creates micro film on the surface of marble, which is more solid and durable and helps to preserve the color and the brightness of the marble. Crystallization is a very good method for regular stone maintenance.
Tips
- Before to do floor restoration you should:
- Remove all furnishings
- Complete access of area
- Completely empty the room
- Protect all walls & built-in furniture
- Cover & tape areas to prevent over-spray
Warnings
- This article for educational purpose only.
- Stone floor restoration can be done by professionals only.
Sources and Citations
- Stone Restoration Sevice - Original source, shared with permission.
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